Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast prestige as a national hero, Inönü was probably the only Turkish politician with enough stature to apply a moderating pressure on the generals, who may now be tempted to take an even greater role in the country's internal affairs in order to crack down on leftist dissent...
...crack out of Trollus and Cressider.... and the almost sublime...
Better solutions would be to allow an unmarried mother to remain in school or on the job as long as possible and to return as soon as she can; to crack down on non-suppport-paying fathers; either to program schoolgirls to be future breadwinners or to program boys to be responsible...
...South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the city held "at all costs" and sent a crack armored column of 20,000 men northward to relieve it. Fearful that the column might be trapped and cut off from the rear, the area commander, General Nguyen Van Minh, halted the majority of his troops 15 miles from...
...years, the opening of the major league baseball season has been as much an American rite of spring as viewing the cherry blossoms in Washington. To sentimentalists, the first crack of bat against ball is a sweet sound heard across the nation. To every President since William Howard Taft, opening day has also meant a chance to toss out the first ball and make a hit with the fans. But this year's scheduled opening came and went last week with no hits, no runs, no President,* and one called strike...